STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 46-year-old woman was charged with arson after authorities allege she torched her own home by igniting a fire that spread to an attached dwelling in Stapleton.
Nancy Torres was also arrested in an unrelated incident where she was armed with two knives when she threatened a man at a park in Stapleton, authorities allege.
Torres allegedly lit the fire at the building where she lives at 203 Targee St. on the morning of Jan. 14, and the inferno spread to an occupied semi-attached unit, according to the criminal complaint, which was based on a probe by the FDNY Bureau of Fire Investigation…